This editorial originally included a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt.

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President Roosevelt

By the law of succession Theodore Roosevelt,
vice-president, became president of the United States upon the death of Mr.
McKinley. Upon taking the oath of office, he volunteered the statement that
he would aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy [3][4]
of President McKinley. Mr. Roosevelt is the youngest incumbent of the presidential
office in our history; he will be forty-three years old this month. His career
has been picturesquely American. Twenty-one years ago he was graduated from
Harvard. Since that time he served longest as National Civil Commissioner, a
period of six years. In political life he also served as member of the New York
legislature, president of the New York city police board, and governor of New
York. From the governorship he was elevated to the vice-presidency for McKinley’s
second term. In the war with Spain he helped to organize the “Rough Riders,”
and he was made colonel for gallantry at the battle of Las Guasimas. He is the
author of numerous books, many of them dealing with ranch life and western conditions
with which he familiarized himself. He will have three years and six months
of a four years’ term to fill.